"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) with 220 illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard, First edition published by Charles Webster, New York, early printing with "1890" on the bottom of the title page and copyright 1889 by Samuel L. Clemens. BAL 3249.

Hardcover, original pictorial cloth (some wear, especially spine ends and corners: see picture), 6.1/2" x 8. 1/2", floral decorated endpapers are creased at the hinges, frontispiece, 575 pages, 220 illustrations, a little wear and soiling, very good condition.
Provenance:
"Tommy Johnson, Beverly Hills, Calif." Is ink written on the front endpaper.

"...a rather extraordinary flight into fantasy - for Mark Twain - combined with his characteristic idiomatic realism. A Bridgeport shop foreman is translated backward 13-1/2 centuries into King Arthur's England. He finds himself surrounded by all the Knights of the Round Table, Arthur, Guenever, Merlin and Morgan le Fay. He trains an apt pupil, Clarence, to help him; and after Alisande escorts him on his required damsel-rescuing expedition, goes through a series of hair-raising adventures to expose the 'fol-de-rol' of knight-errantry and the bitter injustice of sixth century laws. This is the real purpose of the book, as its brief but stinging preface shows.

Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (1850-1941) was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). He started an early career as an engineer and surveyor. He wrote a series of articles for St. Nicholas Magazine that later formed the basis for The American Boy's Handy Book. Beard was a member of the Student Art League, where he met and befriended Ernest Thompson Seton in 1883. Beard illustrated several books for Mark Twain, and for other authors such as Ernest Crosby. In 1908 while living in Redding, Connecticut, Beard was among those on hand to welcome Mark Twain upon his arrival to the author's new villa Stormfield.

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